Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)

Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant m ...

Plan To Lift Smoking Ban In Small Pubs (Reuters)

Nov. 4, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation's bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse th ...

Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy (Greg Kaufmann)

Nov. 3, 2010 (The Nation) -- On this Election Day, when Democrats stand to suffer at the polls, and fewer voters have registered than in previous midterm elections, it seems sadly ironic that ACORN h ...

Towards Martial Law in America: Authority to Deploy Troops Domestically during 'National Emergencies' (James Corbett)

Whistleblower: Coast Guard Implementing Martial Law Oct. 27, 2010 (Global Research, The Corbett Report) -- Earlier this month, the United States Coast Guard upheld its self-declared status as a "spec ...

The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy: How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections (Joshua Holland)

Oct. 27, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Election 2010 is being fought on a wave of campaign dollars unleashed on the American people by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court, led by ...

Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2010 -- It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far ...

The Stealth Coup D'Etat: U.S.A. 2008-2010 (Charles Hugh Smith)

Oct. 28, 2010 (Of Two Minds) -- The Stealth Coup D'Etat in the U.S. (called "The Quiet Coup" by Simon Johnson) was begun long ago, but the takeover reached fruition in the 2008-2010 timeframe. Please ...

Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs? (Declan McCullagh)

Oct. 27, 2010 (CNET News) -- Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target for ...

The Bush Lie (David Michael Green)

Oct. 24, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- First the Big Reagan Lie, now the Even Bigger Bush Lie. It was only a matter of time, of course, before conservatives would come out of hiding. Pummeled ...

WikiLeaks and Assange Honored (Ray McGovern)

Oct. 25, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media,” but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for ...

The Shaming of America (Robert Fisk)

Robert Fisk delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq -- and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the United States Oct. 24, ...